Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Hugh Clough...
TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey sums up Powell's performance this way: "If he is a success so far, it is because Carter runs an open White House. Certainly Powell adds a dimension of humor and quick comeback. But if Carter should ever decide that he wants to close things down a bit, then all those jokes from Jody and his engaging ways would not mean a thing. He would probably be even more reviled for trying to con reporters out of facts by being funny...
...President was in fine, trust-winning form as he and his entourage descended on Newcastle. At the city's modern civic center, he was greeted by Lord Mayor Hugh White, splendidly turned out in scarlet robes with ermine collar and fringes. The Lord Mayor declared Carter to be an "Honorary Freeman" of Newcastle. Among the privileges that go with this ancient honor: permission to graze cattle on the city's moor...
...HUGH TREVOR-ROPER...
That ingredient can be found throughout Hermit of Peking, a model of historical detective work. The unfailingly literate sleuth is Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and The Rise of Christian Europe, who has ventured far from his customary turf. In 1973, Trevor-Roper came upon two volumes of unpublished memoirs by Sir Edmund. The work appeared so outrageous, so incongruent with the accepted character of the author-it chronicled, in obscene detail, his amours with Chinese eunuchs and such European celebrities as Poet Paul Verlaine -that Trevor-Roper felt compelled to investigate the Backhouse background...